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THE 

TRAVELOGUES 

OF 

Mr. Burton Holmes 

Being Traveler' s Tales Tersely Told 

in Graphic Speech, Vivified 

by Pidures in Colour 

and Pictures in 

Motion 



A Travelogue — 

u The Gist of a journey, 
Ground Fine by discrimina- 
tion, Leavened with informa- 
tion, Seasoned with humor, 
Fashioned in literary form, 
and Embellished by pictures 
that delight the eye, while the 
spoken story charms the ear." 



A Travelogue is not a 

lecr.ure — one listens to a 
lecture ; one experiences 
a Travelogue. 
In a Travelogue one sees 
what is being told about* 



"Once seeing is better than a hundred times 
telling about/' 

— Japanese Adage. 



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G LUTING the picture to the phrase, Mr. Holmes 
**-^ in his Travelogues satisfies that universal yearn- 
ing to SEE and KNOW the wonder and the 
beauty of that WORLD of OTHERWHERE, 
the earth-wide realm of the modern traveler. 

"To travel is to possess 
the <world. 

— E. Burton Holmes. 

^ The telling of the Story 
and its pictorial presenta- 
tion move on in perfect 
harmony, producing the il- 
lusion of actual travel, the 
auditor and spectator en- 
joying a delightful sense of 
" being there " — amid the 
scenes of beauty or gran- 
deur conjured out of the 
darkness by the magic of 
the speaker's words. 




(§ The Illustrations, with a few exceptions, 
are from negatives made by Mr. Holmes. 

CJ The beautiful and realistic Colouring of 
the illustrations is the work of the distin- 
guished slide-colourists, Miss Katharine Gor- 
don Breed and Mrs. Helen E. Stevenson. 

CJ The Motion Pictures, made expressly for 
each Travelogue, are by Mr. Holmes and 
Mr. Oscar B. Depue. 

C[ The projecting instruments and the cine- 
matograph are operated by Mr. Depue. 



Mr. Burton Holmes 

has the honour to announce, for 
his first season in England, A 
SERIES OF FIVE TRAV- 
ELOGUES descriptive of the 
following famous regions : 

I 

THE YOSEMITE VALLEY 

ii 
The YELLOWSTONE PARK 

in 

THE GRAND CANYON OF 
ARIZONA 

IV 

ALASKA THE BEAUTIFUL 

v 
THE GOLDEN KLONDIKE 

Each subject presented with 
a remarkable wealth of 

Original Illustrations 

Magnificent Lantern Views 
in Natural Colours and Real- 
istic Motion Pictures Per- 
fectly Projected 




Mr. Burton Holmes 



FOREWORD 

FOR eleven years the travelogues of 
Mr. Burton Holmes have enjoyed an 
ever-increasing popularity in all of the larger 
and many of the lesser cities of the United 
States. Mr. Holmes' annual tours extend 
from '.he Atlantic to the Pacific, and his 
pictured tales of travel are eagerly awaited 
from year to year by loval audiences to whom 
he brings, each Autumn and Winter, the 
essence of his Spring and Summer travel. 
He is not a lecturer in the ordinary sense of 
the word, for in his special line of work he 
is unique. He is pre-eminently a traveler — 
one who travels for the love of travel ; and, 
though not an orator, he employs in telling 
of his travels that convincing eloquence that 
is born of actual experience. He is innately 
a lover of the beautiful in nature, art and 
architecture, and he employs in the making 
of the illustrations for his travelogues an 
artistic discrimination and a sense of compo- 
sition that are the result of a nice appreciation 
of illustrative values and of his long experience 
in travel-photography. In everything said or 
done by Mr Holmes there is reflected an 
intense love of the picturesque and a sus- 
ceptibility to the charm of the exotic. 

His range of subject is as wide as the 
world; but he will make his first appeal to 
the eye and ear of the British public through 
his latest and most beautiful series of five 
travelogues, descriptive of the scenic wonder- 
lands of North America, revealing by means 
of pictures in words and pictures in colour 
and in motion, the more striking experiences 
of a journey from " Broadway to Bering Sea." 

Louis Francis Brown 
Lyman G. Bournique 




El Capita??, 



The Yosemite Valley 



AND 



The Big Trees of California 

HERE and there throughout the 
world the traveler finds a spot 
where Nature appears to have realized 
an ideal. Such a spot is the Yosemite 
Valley, one of Nature's scenic master- 
pieces. Unlike many other famous 
scenic regions, the Yosemite lends itself 
admirably to photographic illustration. 
In his Yosemite Travelogue, Mr. Bur- 
ton Holmes leads his audiences into the 
model valley of the world and reveals 
to them its glorious cliffs in all their 
majesty of magnitude, its towering trees 
and sylvan vistas in all their richness of 
colour, and its world-famous waterfalls 
in all the capricious grace and beauty of 
their incessant play. 

Vivid suggestions of the pleasures 
that attend a tour of the Yosemite are 
given by pictured incidents and cine- 
matographic records of experiences on 
the steep mountain trails up which the 
traveler makes his way to points of view 
where thousands of beauty lovers have 
been thrilled by panoramas of unspeak- 
able sublimity. 




con- 







oid Faithful" in Eruption 



The Yellowstone Park 



AND 



Its Active Volcanic Wonders 

T_T IGH up among the Rocky Moun- 

-■- -1 tains, in the northwestern corner 
of Wyoming, there is a region that is a 
veritable wonderland. It is known as 
the Yellowstone Park, a glorious Na- 
tional playground, several thousand 
square miles in extent, where, amid 
snow-capped peaks, pine-clad slopes, 
verdant valleys, shimmering mountain 
lakes, coloured canyons and exuberant 
rapid rivers the traveler may witness 
some of the most amazing and beautiful 
volcanic manifestations in the world. 
Mr. Burton Holmes, in his Yellowstone 
Travelogue, tells of a tour through the 
American Wonderland, showing the 
noble serenity of the scenic back- 
ground, the exquisite daintiness of the 
tinted terraces built by the magic waters 
of the hot springs, the marvelous colour- 
ing of the quiescent pools, the sublime 
nature-frescoes on the canyon walls, 
and in all their uncanny beauty, the 
various volcanic phenomena — from the 
laughter-provoking bubblings of the 
" Paint Pots " to the awe-inspiring out- 
bursts of the gigantic geysers. 




A Glimpse of the Grand Ca?iyo?i 



The Grand Canyon of 
Arizona 

AND 

The Snake Dance of the Moki Indians 

"An inferno, swathed in soft celestial 
fires; a whole chaotic under-world, just 
emptied of primeval floods and waiting 
for a new creative word ; eluding all 
sense of perspective or dimension, out- 
stretching the faculty of measurement, 
overlapping the confines of definite ap- 
prehension ; a boding, terrible thing, un- 
flinchingly real, yet spectral as a dream; 
:;: : - : :;: a stupendous panorama, a thou- 
sand square miles in extent, that lies 
wholly beneath the eye; :;: : - : * a labyrinth 
of huge architectural forms, endlessly 
varied in design, and painted with every 
colour known to the palette in pure 
transparent tones of marvelous delicacy. 
Never was picture more harmonious, 
never flower more exquisitely beautiful. 
It flashes instant communication of all 
that architecture and painting and music 
for a thousand years have gropingly 
striven to express. It is the soul of 
Michael Angelo and of Beethoven." 

— Charles A, Higgins. 




Alaska?! Art 



Alaska the Beautiful 

The North American Norway 

npHERK is no portion of the globe 
■*- richer than Alaska in the variety 
and splendor of its scenery . Alaskan 
channels or "canals" are as impressive 
as the fjords of Norway. Alaskan 
mountains surpass in height and rival 
in grandeur the most famous peaks of 
Switzerland. Alaskan islands are as 
tair to look upon as those of Japan's 
Inland Sea. Alaskan glaciers, mighty 
ice-floods surging in snow-white splendor 
into the somber fjords, are the most 
marvelous and beautiful in all the 
world. 

After presenting in phrase and pic- 
ture the experiences of a cruise amid 
the pine-clad islands and through the 
mountain-bordered inlets of this far-off 
fjord-land, Mr. Burton Holmes leads 
his fellow travelers along that famous 
pathway of the gold-seeking pioneers, 
over the White Pass and down the 
raging rivers to the head of navigation 
on the Yukon, where the steamers for 
the Golden Klondike wait. 




The Prospector 



The Golden Klondike 

AND 

The Yukon Country 

THE wealth and wonders of the 
Canadian El Dorado were widely 
celebrated at the time of the great Klon- 
dike "gold stampede' in 1897 — but 
the outside world knows very little of 
the actual aspect of that far-off region as 
it is to-day. The wilderness has become 
a land of towns and cities ; the locomo- 
tive thunders through the passes; palatial 
steamers ply up and down the mighty 
rivers ; mining machinery is replacing 
the pick and pan of the old prospector. 
Dawson has evolved from camp to city. 
The poor men who " struck it rich " 
have created a thriving commonwealth 
where yesterday there was nothing but 
a hostile solitude. The transformed 
Klondike district is one of the most 
amazing proofs of the progressive 
prowess of our race. 

Mr. Burton Holmes, in his Klondike 
Travelogue, brings to his audience the 
very life and atmosphere of this new 
advance post of English-speaking en- 
terprise and vivid impressions of a 
voyage down the Yukon River, across 
the Alaskan vastnesses to Cape Nome 
on the shores of the Bering Sea. 



OCT 25 1! 

Under the Title of 

The Burton Holmes Lectures 

Thirty of the Travelogues of Mr. Burton 
Holmes are issued in a superbly illustrated 

EDITION OF TEN VOLUMES 

Each volume containing three complete 
lectures, each lecture illustrated by more 
than a hundred pictures reproduced from 
Mr. Holmes' original negatives. 

Cfl The arrangement of subjects is as follows: 

I. INTO MOROCCO. A Land of Yesterday. 

FEZ, THE METROPOLIS OF THE MOORS. The 
City of Abd-el-Aziz. 

THROUGH THE HEART OF THE MOORISH EM- 
PIRE. From Mequinez to Rabat. 
II. ROUND ABOUT PARIS. Quaint Corners of the French 
Capital. 

THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Part I -The Art Palaces, 
the Esplanade des Invalides, and the National Pavilions. 

THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Part II-The Trocadero 
and the Champ de Mars. 
III. THE OLYMPIAN GAMES IN ATHENS. Modern 
Greece in 1896. 

GRECIAN JOURNEYS. By Caravan Around the Pelo- 
ponnesus. 

THE WONDERS OF THESSALY. The Meteora 
Monasteries and the Vale of Tempe. 
IV. CITIES OF THE BARBARY COAST. From Algiers 
to Constantine. 

OASES OF THE ALGERIAN SAHARA. To Biskra 
and Touggourt. 

SOUTHERN SPAIN. Gibraltar, Ronda, Seville, and 
Granada. 
V. THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. On the Eve of An- 
nexation. 

THE EDGE OF CHINA. Hongkong, Macao, and Canton. 

MANILA. Within the American Lines in iSqg. 
VI. THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. The American Won- 
derland. 

THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA The Biggest 
Beautiful Thing in the World. 

MOKI LAND. The Pueblos of the Snake Dance. 
VII. THROUGH EUROPE WITH A CAMERA. The 
Ficst Effort of the Author. 

OBERAMMERGAU IN 1900. Three Weeks in the Vil- 
lage of the Passion Play. 

CYCLING THROUGH CORSICA. The Home of the 
Vendetta and the Birthplace of Napoleon. 
VIII. ST. PETERSBURG. Springtime in the Imperial Russian 
Capital. 

MOSCOW. The Mother-City of the Muscovites. 

THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. Through a Land 
of Promise, from the Urals to Lake Baikal and the River 
Shilka. 
IX. DOWN THE AMUR. Streystensk, Blagovcschensk, 
Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. 

PEKING. A Study of the Chinese Capital After the Siege. 

THE FORBIDDEN CITY. A Revelation of the Secret 
and Sacred Recesses of Imperial Peking. 
X. SEOUL, THE CAPITAL OF KOREA. The Metropo- 
lis of the " Hermit Nation." 

JAPAN. The Country - An Unbeaten Track from Nikko 
to the Rapids of the Tenryu River. 

JAPAN. The Cities— From Tokyo to the Sacred Island in 
the Inland Sea. 

Cfl For information concerning this publica- 
tion, please address the Managers of Mr. 
Burton Holmes, Queen's Hall, London. 









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HE interesting places described 
in these Travelogues may be 
conveniently reached as fol- 
lows: From New York to Chi- 
cago, the Erie Railway takes 
one through an attractive country. 
Prom Chicago (whence one should not 
fail to go over the Chicago and A'ton 
Line to the St Louis World's Fair in 
1904) one reaches the Grand Canyon of 
Arizona via the Santa Fe Railway; the 
Yellowstone Park via the Northern Pa- 
cific, leaving the Park, if desired, via 
the Oregon Short Line to the Pacific 
Coast ; from Chicago to California, one 
may go over the Northwestern Line and 
the Southern Pacifc, which maintains 
a rapid summer service between San 
Francisco and the Yosemite Valley — 
one night by rail and a delightful day's 
drive by " Limited '" stage. 
•J Alaska is most comfortably visited 
on the S. S. "Spokane," one of the 
cruising steamers of the Pacific Coast 
S. S. Co., sailing from Seattle and Vic- 
toria, 8. C. 



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